Les Coyotes viennent de nous lancer une bombe médiatique. Ils ont disputé 4 matchs cette saison avec un chiffre d’affaires brut de 1 million de dollars. C’est plus que ce qu’ils ont fait en toute saison à Glendale. C’est un exploit ? Pour le contexte, Winnipeg a atteint une capacité moyenne d’un peu plus de 12 000 places cette saison et vise une moyenne de 13 000 places. Le prix moyen du billet est probablement de 130 à 160 dollars. Mais soyons conservateurs, juste pour prouver mon point de vue. 1 200 sièges x billet de 100 $ = 1,2 million de dollars de revenus bruts par match en moyenne. Prenez tout avec des pincettes et Go Jets Go!
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Yes however Bettman would really really prefer the Houston Jets hosting cup finals. As nice as ticket sales are… he wants proper NHL advertising dollars. You don’t get that with big games being played in Winnipeg. Bettmen has been the issue for a long time.
Fuck the NHL and fuck TNSE if they threaten the general public with taking the team away. I love the Jets, I watch every game I can, go to a handful of games a season, have lots of jerseys. If supporting the team means feeling guilty because I have to *checks notes* pay my mortgage and buy food then fuck em.
TNSE did a poor job retaining season ticket holders and the waiting list… endless surveys with little action.
They’ve also made bank on franchise value and will cover their purchase cost through expansion fees easily.
We get articles like this saying there will be problems if we dont change, instead of articles talking about action they are taking to incentivize people to come back.
I’m a single male with disposable income, I held season tickets for the first 8 years, I’ve now moved back to the city but really don’t see why I’d be a STH compared to casually buying 10 games for cost. Playoff ticket access is about all it would help for…idgaf about concession discount on overpriced food or a merch discount on awful fanatics gear.
Chipman bought the Thrashers for $170 million. He’ll flip them for close to $1 billion, except he’ll still own plenty of downtown real estate and have the Moose to pursue his ‘hockey boss’ hobby with.
It takes a used car salesman to push a mediocre product to maximum profit.
Thank god somebody else is here to fight this. Tell everybody it’s bullshit running amuck!
I love the game of hockey.
But fuck me, I loathe the business of hockey.
I agree, it’s gas lighting and a lack of context that the media is running with to make their clickbait articles.
Winnipeg needs a higher percentage of corporate buyers for season tickets. We’re at 15%, some markets are as high as 50%. I see Chipman’s message directed towards corporate sponsors, which aligns with Bettman coming to Winnipeg to drum up corporate support.
Stop charging $18 for a beer
We need to stop comparing ourselves to the Coyotes situation.
We’re a legitimate small hockey market with a very small population base. We don’t have tourism or snowbirds.
When you lose STH in our market it’s concerning since the amount of people you can market to stays the same.
There’s other cities out there that instantly can draw more people and create more revenue for the league if they moved the Jets. It’s just a numbers game.
Houston metro has 7.2 million people. 11% of their population is the size of the entire market the Jets are working with in Winnipeg.
It takes just under 2% of our population to fill the arena.
It would take .02% of Houston’s population to fill a 20k seat arena.
Pretty easy W for the league there. Houston Aeros were drawing 7k before they folded.
I get it. We’re defensive. We always feel like people don’t talk about us, don’t care about us and don’t want us in the league. Honestly, that’s all probably true.
But if we don’t want to lose the team again, the community has to face this head on. We can’t just say fuck Bettman and keep doing what we’re doing.
The corporate community needs to step up now. The Jets rode the backs of the diehard fans for 10 years. They can’t afford it anymore.
I really don’t want to lose them again but if I have to rally on Portage and Main again, I’ll do it. I’d just prefer not to need to do it a second time.
You cant compare Arizona and Winnipeg in terms of market stability. Winnipeg has the lowest average attendance in the league outside of the coyotes and thats because Arizona’s arena is a college barn that holds 6,000. The numbers here are not good, although not dire and definitely fixable. Just know that nobody is being gaslit and if Chipman is calling ticket holders personally, there is cause for alarm.
Thompson owns the jets. He’s the richest guy in Canada. It’s a business. If it’s not bringing in enough revenue he needs to a) borrow b) sell c) inject personal cash to sustain it which is fully repayable from the business tax free. Here comes incoming requests for taxpayer help from the richest guy in Canada.
$10 for a beer is dumb. $180 for a decent seat is dumb.
They priced themselves out of the market.
Pay for bigger names on the roster
Even if what he says is true, he should not say it.
Use the carrot, not the stick.
It’ll just make people angry, there will be some backlash. Not many will sympathize with billionaires crying poor. Melnyk made some comment like this around 2018, and ticket sales went down for 5 years with people ticked off at Melnyk for a myriad of reasons. 1 season with a new owner, and ticket sales have bounced back to mid-level despite a bad team. People like giving Andlauer money, he’s been nothing but positive in every way.
Just say nothing, and keep encouraging people to buy tickets. It’s not the greatest economic times right now, with the middle class being hollowed out. And Winnipeg is a very small market. Encourage the fans, don’t discourage them, no matter what the numbers say.
Now convert it to USD…
I just don’t think there is a answer to this situation right now, Winnipeg is poor city, we can’t change that.
Tickers for the March 11th game against the Caps are as low as $58 as of today. That’s getting to see a guaranteed HOF player on the visiting team. Sounds like a decent deal considering the Jets Oilers game I saw in Edmonton earlier this season cost me $200 for second deck. (Same section in Winnipeg would be $81.59.)